one of the important decisions which impacts all firms’ activities is the supplier selection problem. since the 1950s, several works have addressed this problem by treating different aspects and instances. in this paper, a combined multiple criteria decision making (mcdm) technique (ea-promethee) has been applied to implement a proper decision making. to this aim, after reviewing the theoretica...

nowadays, due to the competitive conditions of global market, corporations try to outsource their extraneous processes to third-party suppliers. so, selecting a proper supplier play a significant role in organization success. the supplier selection problem can be viewed as a group decision-making problem with multiple criteria. since in previous researches the inter relationship between criteri...

Most of the available Multi-criteria Group Decision Making methods that deal with a high number elements usually focus on managing scenarios have alternatives and/or experts. Nevertheless, there are also cases in which criteria values is difficult for experts to tackle. In this paper, novel method employs Fuzzy Ontologies order presented. Our allows be combined generate reduced set can comforta...